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SnagLearning Resources
NACCTEP and SnagLearning are partnering to provide the membership with free online resources. SnagLearning will be sharing a slate of films each month. Following is a small sample of films available from SnagLearning. SnagLearning features carefully selected films from SnagFilms’ library of over 1,800 documentaries that are appropriate for students from middle school and up. The goal of this site is to highlight documentaries that make for engaging educational tools.
Added January 18, 2012
It All Adds Up: Math Corps
An innovative summer math camp held on the Wayne State University campus helps hundreds of inner-city Detroit middle school students. Watch Video
Volunteer
An innovative summer math camp held on the Wayne State University campus helps hundreds of inner-city Detroit middle school students. Watch Video
Bring Your A Game
A groundbreaking documentary film that sheds light on the resilience and influence of black males. Watch Video
Added September 1, 2011
The New Los Angeles
An examination of how race, labor, and immigration have shaped and reshaped Los Angeles' political life and landscape. Watch Video
A Shop on Every Corner
The rise and fall of the American Apparel Industry told through the personal stories of Pennsylvania garment workers. Watch Video
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
Michigan youth investigate the dubious circumstances under which a Wal-Mart appeared on a wetland in their small town. Watch Video
Snakeheads
An undercover team of filmmakers initiate negotiations to bring Chinese slave labor into the United States. Watch Video
Ladies of the Land
Ladies of the Land tells the story of four women who have dedicated their lives to goats, grains and green beans. Watch Video
Added April 26, 2011
Made in China Watch Video
Chinatown: Immigrants in America Watch Video
Earth Focus: Climate Change Refugees Watch Video
Added March 26, 2011
Aquafinito
Addressing the prevalence of bottled water, reasons people buy it, and the environmental and social costs associated with it. Watch Video
SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories
Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana there’s water – rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. Watch Video
Blind Spot
Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroad, which offers two paths with dire consequences. Watch Video
The Waterkeepers
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leads the nation’s fastest-growing grassroots environmental organization, the Waterkeeper Alliance. Like an environmental “Neighborhood Watch” program, waterkeepers take polluters to court, respond to citizens’ complaints about water pollution, identify problems that affect rivers, bays, lakes and streams; devise appropriate remedies and act as living witnesses to the condition of local ecosystems. Watch Video
Burning Ice
In September 2009, documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert joined more than 40 observers - including musicians Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock, Ryuichi Sakamoto and writers Suzan-Lori Parks and Andrew Revkin - on an ice-breaking ship for a nine-day voyage off the coast of Greenland with artist-led climate change project, Cape Farewell. Watch Video
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